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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 975 of 4582

Abhanga 975

When your ordinary life breaks apart and leaves you exposed, that is the moment to ask God to come close instead of staying distant.

When complete tear-asunder happened; all fell open — and you have to recognize this register
When we are not anyone's; filled into Your stream — and you accept this image
When samsāra passed; seat-to-sit broken — and you allow this image

The verse

जाली तडातोडी । अवघीं पडिलों उघडीं ॥१॥ नव्हों कोणांची च कांहीं । तुझे भरलिया वाहीं ॥ध्रु.॥ पारुशला संवसार । मोडली बैसण्याची थार ॥२॥ आतां म्हणे तुका । देवा अंतरें राखों नका ॥३॥

Literal translation

Taḍā-tōḍī — ughaḍa. No-one's — Your — bharaliyā vāhī. Pārūśalā — samsāra — baisaṇyācī thāra — broken. Tuka says: Dēva — antara — don't.

मराठी: जाली तडा-तोडी — अवघीं पडिलों उघडीं. नव्हों कोणांची-च कांहीं — तुझे भरलिया वाहीं. पारुशला संवसार — मोडली बैसण्याची थार. आतां म्हणे Tuka — Dēvā, अंतरें राखों नका.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
जाली तडातोडी "taḍā-tōḍī"
अवघीं पडिलों उघडीं "all — ughaḍa"
नव्हों कोणांची च कांहीं "no-one's"
तुझे भरलिया वाहीं "Your — bharaliyā vāhī"
पारुशला संवसार "pārūśalā — samsāra"
मोडली बैसण्याची थार "baisaṇyācī thāra — broken"
देवा अंतरें राखों नका "Dēva — antara"

What it means

A complete-tear-asunder-all-fell-open-not-anyone's-filled-into-Your-stream-samsāra-passed-seat-broken-don't-keep-at-distance abhang. Don't-keep-me-at-distance-when-samsāra-broken register. Three claims:

  1. तडा-तोडी — अवघं-उघडं — कोणाचं-नकाहीं — तुझे-वाहीं. Tear-and-Your-stream-claim. Ataḍā-tōḍī; all fellughaḍa; no one's — having enteredYour stream.

  2. संसार-पारूशला — बैसण्याची-थार-मोडली. Samsāra-passed-claim. Samsāra has pārūśalā; baisaṇyācī thāra broken.No-place-left-in-the-world.

  3. Tuka: Dēvā-अंतरें-नका. Don't-keep-at-distance-claim. Now Tuka says:Dēvā, don't keep (me) at antara.

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For someone today

When your life suddenly falls apart and everything about you feels exposed and stripped bare, Tukaram says that is exactly the moment you stop belonging to anything else and belong only to God's flow. Your ordinary footing in the world, the settled place you used to sit in, has broken, and there is nowhere left to hide or lean on. Rather than pretending to cope alone, he simply asks God not to stay distant now, right when everything else has given way.

मराठी: जेव्हा तुमचे आयुष्य अचानक उद्ध्वस्त होते आणि तुम्हाला सगळे उघडे-वाघडे, असुरक्षित वाटू लागते, तेव्हा तुकाराम म्हणतात की नेमकी हीच वेळ असते जेव्हा तुम्ही इतर कशाचेही न राहता फक्त देवाच्या प्रवाहात सामील होता. तुमची नेहमीची जागा, जिथे तुम्ही स्थिरपणे बसत होता, ती मोडली आहे आणि लपायला किंवा टेकायला काहीच उरलेले नाही. एकट्याने सांभाळून घेण्याचे नाटक न करता, तो सरळ देवाला विनंती करतो की आता, जेव्हा बाकी सगळे कोसळले आहे, तेव्हा त्याने अंतर ठेवू नये.

Where this applies

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